Roofing-tile



(No Model.)

J. RAPP. ROOFING TILE.

No. 411,299. Patented Sept. 17, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH RAPP, OF AKRON, OHIO.

ROOFlNG-TILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 411,299, dated September 1*?, 1889.

Application filed May l0, 1889. Serial No. 310,233. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH RAPP, of Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roofing-Tiles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, elear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable. others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in roofing-tiles; and it consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective. Fig. 2 is a transverse section showing one way of securing the tiles in position, and Fig. 3 is a view in perspective showing a tile fastened to a beam.

The central portion or bottom of the tile is flat, as shown at A, and from thence the two sides B and O slope upward and outward, substantially as shown-say at an angle of forty-tive degrees, more or less. Member D, having a reverse slope, is integral with side C, and from the upper edge of the latter slopes downward and outward, as shown, the two members O and D constituting an inverted-V-shaped trough adapted to lit over side B of the next adjacent tile located at the left hand in the same lateral tier. The upper outer corner of member D is beveled oif, as shown at CZ, and the lower outer corner of side B is correspondingly beveled, as shown at b.

As will be seen in the drawings, the tiles are laid in lateral tiers, the tier next above overlapping the tier below the necessary distance, and the beveled corner d of a tile abuts the beveled corner b of the next right-hand tile of the tier below, such joint at the beveled corners by the next tile of the upper tier,

` and so on throughout the roof. MemberA on the top surface thereof has a recess a extogether underneath the supporting-bars, for instance, as shown in Fig. 2, a supporting-bar being shown at I. Then the tiles are laid on a roof having but little pitch, if the overlapping tiles fit close together along the bottoms thereof the water, by means of capillary attraction, is likely to find its way up between the overlapping sections of the tile and leak through holes a; but by means of recess e, admitting air between' the tiles, such leakage is prevented; also, by reason of recess @,these tiles can be laid flatwise, the one above the other, indrying and` burning, such recesses admitting heat and air between the tiles sufiieient for the purpose, and in such position the tiles are not likely to warp.

In shipping, the tiles can be packed tlatwise, the one above the other, in small compass and without danger of breaking.

It is evident that the tiles could be constructed the other handed-that is to say, with side B on the left hand and sides C and D on the right hand, with diagonally-opposite corners beveled for mut-ual engagementwithout departingfrom the spirit and purpose of my invention.

Vhat I claim isl. A roofing-tile consisting, essentially, of flat-bottom trough with sloping sides and inverted trough, the troughs having a side in common, the inverted trough `being adapted to t over the opposing side of the next adjacent tile, the diagonally-opposite corners of the tile being beveled, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A roofing-tile consisting, essentially, of a fiat-bottom trough and inverted- V -shaped trough having a side in common,I substantially as indicated, the flat-bottom trough having recess c and holes through the bottom wall of such recess for the purpose of securing the tile, substantially as set forth.

The combination of a roofing-tile, shaped substantially as indicated, having recess a and holes a', and securing-wires for fastening the tiles, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 18th day of March, 1889.

l JOSEPH RAPP.

Vitnesses:

inns. H. DOEEE, ALBERT E. LYNCH.

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